1. conch - Noun
2. conch - Verb
A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.
In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.
One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.
See Concha, n.
The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.
Source: Webster's dictionarySensing the approaching danger, the snail flees. But in a world of snail paces, the conch is something of a Ferrari. It calls for desperate measures. Exhausted by the effort of its last-ditch attempt, the tulip snail is slowly... gunned... down. David Attenborough
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. William Golding
Not naive," Conch Shell had corrected him, "He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear. Tom Robbins
There was no Piggy to talk sense. There was no solemn assembly for debate nor dignity of the conch. William Golding
If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway. William Golding
.. for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho. John Cheever